Chelsea is the author of A Dangerous Place (Sarabande Books, 2021), named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her work appears in Adroit Journal, Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere, and was featured by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on The Slowdown podcast.
Winner of the 2020 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize from the Missouri Review, Chelsea has received support from the Anderson Center at Tower View, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Inprint, and Tin House Summer Workshop, among others.
She lives with her family in Minneapolis, and is the founder of Freshwater Writing.